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Vol. 94, No.101 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday morning, February 16, 1984
Gemayel agrees to plan ending pact with Israel
WASHINGTON — Lebanese President Amin Gemayel has agreed to an eight-point plan that includes abrogation of the May 17 Lebanese-Armenian agreement, the Washington Post reported today.
Quoting U.S. and diplomatic sources, the newspaper said the plan was a "package deal" that included rapprochement among warring factions within Lebanon, withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli forces and replacement of the international peacekeeping force by a U.N. force.
The paper quoted sources as saying it was not clear what would happen if all sides did not accept the plan in its entirety. Saudi Foreign Minister fumed the point, and the instrumental effort working out the proposal, was reported to be flying to Damascus to seek the approval of Syrian President Hafez Assad.
STATE DEPARTMENT spokesman Sandra Sanders said the department comment on the report. The White House also held a hearing.
Druse leader Walid Jumblait warned yesterday that the Muslim militias controlling west Beirut would not halt their offensive until President Amin Gemelav resigns.
IN JERUSALEM, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens warned yesterday that Israel would retain its forces in Lebanon if Gemayel failed to withdraw accord between the two countries.
Jumblatt was quoted by the Drusse Voice of the Mountain radio after the Drusse dealt another serious defeat to the Lebanese army, which is dominated by Gemayel's Christian-led govern-
Arens, speaking to American Jewish leaders in Tel Aviv, said unilateral abrogation of the agreement by Lebanon would leave Israel no
See MIDEAST, p. 5, col. 1
$14 million antitrust suit filed against Journal-World
By JILL CASEY Staff Reporter
The publisher of a Baldwin City newspaper has filed a $14 million antitrust suit in federal court against the World Company, publisher of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World.
The suit, filed Feb. 2 by Monte Miller of Telegraphics Inc., accuses the Lawrence Daily Journal-World of attempting to monopolize the newspaper's market in the Lawrence County early 1983.
The damages sought include $8 million in actual damages and $6 million in punitive damages, Miller's complaint shows.
The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Ky. The Journal-World has been sued by the company.
DOLPH SIMONS JR., publisher of the Journal-World, said yesterday, "We feel very strongly that it's a totally baseless complaint, and we plan to strongly defend our position."
We plan to strongly support Telegraphics Inc. publishes a weekly adver
using newspaper called Telegraphics. The newspaper had circulation in Lawrence until October of 1983.
The complaint also accuses the Journal-World of using "various acts of unfair competition" to lead advertisers to stop advertising in Telegraphics.
This complaint alleges that these practices caused Telegraphics' circulation to decrease.
TELEGRAPHICS HAD a circulation of 37,000 in early 1983, but the circulation decreased to 17,000 after it stopped circulation in Lawrence, Miller said yesterday.
The complaint alleges that the Journal-World gave discount advertising rates to advertisers who agree to advertise in both the Journal-World and I/Extra, the World Company's weekly shopper.
In order to compete with the Journal-World's rates, Telegraphics lowered its rates from $7.07 a column inch to $3.10. Miller said. Finally, the Journal-World's rate of communication to continue circulation in Lawrence, he said.
See JOURNAL, p. 5, col. 5
Mick Hilleary, Kansas City, Kan., senior, examines one of Truman Lowe's work of art in the Art and Design Building
Larry Funk/KANSAN
Catholic center plan to get early review
Rv SHARON BODIN
Staff Reporter
The St. Lawrence Catholic Center's revised plan to build a church and to expand the student center at Engel and Crescent schools will come before the Lawrence City Commission Tuesday
Yesterday, the Rev. Vincent Krische, director of the center, requested the discussion be placed on Tuesday's agenda, said Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager.
commission had postponed action on the center since November.
The commission originally deferred action on the plan for three weeks — from Feb. 7 to Feb. 10.
At the Feb. 7 meeting, the commission suggested the center reduce the size of the proposed church from 242 seats to between 360 and 180 seats, suggested that a proposed chapel be eliminated.
THE REVISED PLAN that the commission will discuss this Tuesday will include an expanded student center and a church with about 400 seats. Krische said.
The commission will discuss the plan only if center representatives can complete the revised plan and submit it to commissioners before Tuesday night, he said.
Neighborhood Association, said, "It would be a
etiquette if the site plan is discussed
Tuesday."
Representatives of the center and the neighborhood association met Tuesday and plan to
Bill Barr. president of the Crescent-Engel
"The speed with which the Catholics are moving this thing through is shocking." Barr声
added.
THE NEGOTIATION team for the center includes Krische and Mike Davis, dean of the School of Law The representatives for the center are James and Elizabeth of neighborhood association, Tom Smith, KU
See CENTER. p. 5, col. 3
McCoy laid to rest; feud expires too Hatfield family attends funeral, recalls legend
By United Press International
TOLER, Ky. — Jim McCoy, whose family's blood feud with the Hatfield clan became an American legend, was buried yesterday in the family cemetery at a one-time Kentucky coal camp.
McCoy, a coal miner, died Saturday at age 99.
"Grandpa was a a very loving, kind and patient man," McCoy's grandson, Jimmy Wolford, said before the funeral service.
A choir sang "Amazing Grace" and "Jerusalem, My Happy Home" as an estimated 175 people mourned McCoy during funeral services at a cathedral in Philadelphia. The mourners included four Hatfield families from neighboring West Virginia.
In 1976, McCoy helped symbolically bury the hatchet with Hatfield descendants, in a ceremony marking the placement of a peace monument in the old McCoy cemetery at Blackberry Fork near Hardy, Ky.
McCoy was buried with a sprig of dogwood in his solid oak casket, at the McCoy Family Cemetery on a mountain top. Burnwell, a one-time coal camp town.
The 19th century feud between the clans in the rural Appalachians where Kentucky and West Virginia meet began in the 1880s, over some hogs the McCoys claimed the Hatfields stole from them.
He shook hands with the late Willis Hattfield, then 88, of Sarah Ann, W.Va., and the last surviving member of the huddle, who had been one of the leaders of the feud.
"Grandpa became very good friends with the Hatfields in recent years. The Hatfields are a very gracious people." Wolford said.
Between 30 and 50 members of both clans died during the 30-year period of intense feuding that followed.
In one of the bloody episodes, some Hatfield raided a McCoy home on New Year's Day, 1888, killing a girl and a boy and wounding a McCoy woman.
Walkman harmonizes with youth
Staff Reporter
By MARY SEXTON Staff Reporter
In the early days of portable music, transistor radios provided the tunes that everybody wanted to hear.
It was the "tune-in-to-tune-out" generation, and kids everywhere wanted one of the little boxes of portable music. Those kids have grown up, but the passion for music hasn't changed much.
The difference is in the sophistication of the equipment and the prices that are charged.
waukman stereos hit the streets about three years ago. Now those stereos, and their counterparts, are everywhere — on buses, at the library, at laundry. They've become running partners and companions on long strolls.
"I have a long way to walk from my dorm to classes," Paul Highstrom, Lenexa sophomore, said recently while he sat in Wescoe cafeteria. "Today I went to the museum to talk about Adam to Spencer Museum, and it helped me to pass the time while I walked."
LAST YEAR manufacturers sold more than 13 million of the portable headset stereos, Gary Harman, a founder of General Electric Co., said recently.
SOME CITIES ACROSS the country, because of safety concerns, have passed ordinances restricting the use of headset stereos. Users may be ticketed for wearing headsets while driving or riding their bikes within city limits.
"We've seen a number of cases of people who have received hearing
Between 1982 and 1983, he said, sales in the industry increased 75 percent overall. "It's a growing and thriving market," he said, as the market is saturated," he said.
Fred Lintichm, director of Otologic Research at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles, said that portable headset said he was known to cause hearing loss.
Lawrence abides by the guidelines. Still, bicyclists and pedestrians can be seen everywhere with the headsets blaring tunes in their ears.
The craze has reached epidemic proportions among KU students. But for some of them, hearing experts say, ecstasy could eventually turn to agony.
Researchers have found that the listening machines could damage bearing. And the concerns don't stop there.
Lithiumic said that the amount of hearing loss would depend on each individual's susceptibility, but generally permanent hearing loss could occur after listening to a headset sound of 115 decibels for 15 minutes.
losses from them," he said. "But it all depends on the user and his particular use of them."
steve Press, assistant professor of otorhinolaryngology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said that he was excited to occur, it was usually in the inner ear.
THE MAXIMUM LIMIT for some units is 115 decibels, he said.
But Linthicum said that most people might not notice the damage for some time. "Sometimes damage may not be evident later in life," he said.
The majority, if not all, of the damage is done to the hair cells of the inner ear," he said. Hair cells are nerve tissue that looks like hair, he said.
The rule of thumb for , detecting
hearing loss is that if a ringing develops in the ear after hearing a loud noise, then a hearing loss is possible, he said. It must be put for sure the hearing must be learnt.
University students gave varying reasons for using the headsets.
Dorothy Deters. Overland Park
sector, consider the
staggered step of corrugated
concrete.
"COLLEGE *STUDENTS* need a Walkman to survive," she said. She said that she carried one every day just before it to Paul Harvey in the afternoons.
Mark Thompson, Kansas City Mo., junior, said that he just liked listening to music, and listening to his cassette album, everything to do while walking to his classes.
But he said that he felt weird wearing it because it seemed antisocial. "It gives out 'Hey, leave me alone' or 'I am not going to you right now,' signals," he said.
See WALKMAN, p. 5, col. 1
By MATT DeGALAN Staff Reporter
New method to monitor athlete academic status will go into effect soon
New procedures for monitoring the academic progress of student athletes will go into effect sometime in the next two weeks, Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday.
The procedures will transfer monitoring responsibilities from the athletic department to the office of academic affairs. Under the new procedures, academic affairs will ask professors to fill out progress reports designed to monitor attendance and academic performance.
NORMAN YETMAN, the chairman of the Academic Support Committee of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation, said the procedures had been drawn up by his committee. He said the new procedures were similar to the system used in freshman and sophomore teams in high school. That system is also administered through the academic affairs office.
Yetman said, "It's part of a general effort to ensure that athletes are meeting the academic standards of the University and to be sure they have the skills and knowledge needed for success of the University and are making progress toward a degree."
Mike Fisher, the athletic department's academic adviser, now monitors athletes' academic progress. He has also been the team has no systematic monitoring process.
The athletic department's system relies on the athletes to request instructors to fill out the progress reports.
UNDER THE NEW plan, Fisher would no longer be responsible for the monitoring, said Lanny Rose, assistant vector for NCAA interpretations.
Fisher would serve as the athletic department's liaison to the academic affairs office. If a coach wanted to know the academic progress of one of his players, Fisher would make the request to the academic affairs office, Rose
said. Academic affairs would then release the information, he said.
Rose said that the athletic department had not yet decided whether academic affairs would send athletes' progress reports to Fisher or directly to coaches.
The procedures will request that professors complete academic progress forms for athletes in their classes. The forms would be sent to Tacha's office, where Paul Buskirk, special assistant for athletic advising, and John Koch, the athletic department of those athletics having academic problems.
The new policy will require that the academic progress of the athletes be monitored during the first semester of their freshmen year. Monitoring will continue for those who have academic problems. The present policy provides no guidelines on when or for how long the athletes must be monitored.
BUSKIRK SAID THAT the policy would affect about 50 student athletes when enacted this semester.
Yetman said that professors would be more willing to cooperate with the new policy if monitoring was administered by academic affairs and that the new policy would be more systematic in monitoring the progress of athletes.
waver Crockett, a KUAC board member and a professor of psychology, said the new policy was not actually a transfer of monitoring responsibility, but, rather, the creation of a monitoring system.
"I can see how it would be a value to
carpet and a value in general." Crochet
Crockett said the monitoring proposal would determine which student athletes had academic problems before it was too late to help them. Those lacking motivation could then be removed from the athletic program, he said, and those who wanted help could obtain it.
He said the policy would help ensure that athletes were attending classes and taking exams, but without giving the appearance of athletic department interference in academic matters. It would also allow coaches to know whether their players were having academic problems.